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To continue where we left off…

You might not have multiple twitter accounts, that’s understandable, but I am sure you have many gmail accounts? Well, I do… I have couple of gmail accounts, usually different accounts for different projects.

So, if you are like me, have to check different gmail accounts all the time, you know that logging out from one account and logging in to another account can be a hassle. Especially if you check your accounts frequently.

To solve this problem, you can use Gmail Manager add-on for Firefox. As you can see from the screenshot, in order to switch from one gmail account to another, you just have to right click on the gmail icon in the firefox taskbar, and choose your particular account to login. That’s it, you will automatically will be logged to your chosen gmail account.

This plugin allows you to use secure connection for your accounts. Also, since it has the option to store passwords, it’s highly recommended that you do not use this at the public PCs where other people can access your emails.

Plugin Page: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/

Isn’t it strange that Google’s own product Google Gears does not recognize the URL google.com? [see pic] Probably they are not doing exceptions to their own domains, but come on who would complain?

Google Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications. For example with it, you can use Google Docs and Google Reader offline when your PC is not connected to the internet. When it is connected, it would synchronize the offline data with online applications.

Additionally, Zoho and Remember the Milk too use Google Gears.

http://gears.google.com

I hope you are already using delicious.com to manage your bookmarks. If you are not, then I strongly recommend that you should. Delicious Bookmarks 1.5.44 is an official delicious add-on for firefox that will make your bookmarking a lot easier.

Once you have installed it, don’t forget to bookmark my blog ;) Apparently 56 people have already bookmarked it on delicious. What? Only 2 person bookmarked it in 2008? Come on guys we need to increase that! bookmark to delicious.

Hyperwords is a great plugin for firefox. You can do with it many stuff. But what I liked most about it was the translate feature that translates pages on the fly – without opening a new window, right there on the same page.

For example, below is a news page in Russian. I have selected the paragraph and translated it into English. As you can see other parts of the website is still in Russian, and only the selected paragraph has been translated. Cool huh?

Here is a YouTube video of what more you can do with this plugin.

If you are like me who spend lots of hours on firefox, then you will find this plugin ReminderFox 1.7 very useful. It’s a to-do (and reminder) manager. It sits silently at the status bar of your firefox and lets you know of the latest to-do’s and reminders that you have set before.

When you mouse over on the status bar it will show you your reminders for today, upcoming ones + your to-do lists (see screenshot). You can also chose to be reminded through small pop-up windows if you wish.

Personally, liked the plugin very much…

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers right inside your browser.

If you are too lazy to open your ftp client, then this add-on is created for you.

FireFTP Charity Project
The website has a charity project where if you donate, half of your donations will go to orphans in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The author himself has adopted one kid from the orphanage. What a wonderful person he is.
He says:“This year my family and I have been able to adopt one of the children from the orphanage. (He’s the cute little kid in the photo to the right.)” They very much look alike, aren’t they?

Let me make my contribution…
http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

Have you accidentally lost any data by closing the Firefox tab? If yes, then most probably you are not using PermaTabs plugin.

After you have installed PermaTabs, right-clicking on any tab in Firefox and choosing “Permanent Tab” from the menu will disable the close button for that particular tab. This will make that tab impossible to be closed, unless of course you un-PermaTab it ;) It’s particularly useful for Email tabs.

I am sure most of you knew about this plugin, but it might be new to some readers.